What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Designer position at heygen?
About HeyGen
At HeyGen, our mission is to make visual storytelling accessible to all. Over the last decade, visual content has become the preferred method of information creation, consumption, and retention. But the ability to create such content, in particular videos, continues to be costly and challenging to scale. Our ambition is to build technology that equips more people with the power to reach, captivate, and inspire audiences.
Learn more at www.heygen.com. Visit our Mission and Culture doc here.
Highlights
- Create a world-class product, user experience, and brand closely with the founders and leaders
- Join an elite design team with emphasis on ownership, speed and impact
- Deliver designs to millions of users from ideation to implementation in days
Responsibilities
- End-to-End Product Design: Own the design process from discovery to delivery — from problem definition and user research to detailed interaction and visual design.
- User-Centered Design: Deeply understand our users’ needs through research, data, and empathy. Translate insights into intuitive, elegant, and accessible experiences that help people tell stories with HeyGen.
- Craft Exceptional Experiences: Design world-class interfaces and interactions that balance usability, delight, and scalability across our product ecosystem.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and other designers to shape product direction, define opportunities, and ensure high-quality execution.
- Prototype and Iterate: Quickly visualize ideas through sketches, prototypes, and motion studies. Validate design decisions through testing, feedback, and data.
- Design Systems and Consistency: Contribute to and evolve HeyGen’s design system to ensure consistency, efficiency, and a cohesive visual language across the platform.
- Balance Vision and Execution: Champion long-term design quality and innovation while pragmatically delivering impactful improvements to the product today.
Requirements
- 4 years of designing and shipping modern software solutions
- Strong familiarity and experience conducting usability research and speaking with users
- A proven track record of designing for metrics-driven outcomes with high quality aesthetics and user experience
- Strong understanding of metrics, user psychology, and interface design.
- Ability to rapidly prototype and iterate based on feedback and data insights.
- Proven experience working cross-functionally with engineering and product teams
- Experience in visual design, insightful understanding of fundamental design elements like colors, fonts, textures and can compose world-class visual design language fluently
- Open-minded, self-driven, strong learner, constantly on the front edge of the industry – bringing the latest insights to the team
Bonus Points
- Experience working on PLG (product-led growth) initiatives as a key player
- Strong analytical thinking, with a great sense of data-driven design
- A strong passion for design in a broader sense, constantly expanding design thinking and expertise
Salary Range:
$170,000 – $220,000 annually depending on experience and fit. Not representative of total compensation which includes equity and benefits.
Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. HeyGen considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, and internal equity, as well as location, market and business considerations when extending an offer. As part of our total rewards package, HeyGen offers comprehensive benefits including internal equity, a matching 401k plan, health benefits, generous PTO, a parental leave program and emotional health resources.
HeyGen is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Salary : $170,000 - $220,000